Electrification is gradual, controlled, geographically dispersed and, more important than all of these things: brings about economy-wide emissions reductions and cost-of-living reductions. The energy products are used for things we value: moving around, keeping warm, cooking food, making products.

April 10, 2026 - 13:55 UTC

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Data centres are the opposite.

It's sudden, unregulated (and even fast-tracked), concentrated and acute, it essentially universally increases fossil fuel use, it tends to contribute to rising power bills, and the products are used to make everything we value worse (as GenAI degrades all digital)
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Sounds like you're saying Datacentre operators are the colonisers of electrification
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Somehow it never occurs to them that we could also get bogged down in the arcane process of building a bunch of stuff nobody needs, because they're utterly brainwashed into "Growth is good."

Tumors grow, too.
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If enviro / climate groups were universally and ideologically opposed to any sort of load growth they'd..................hate renewables and electrification?

But....they do not hate those things???
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